View full sizeThe ladies of VH1's "Making Mr. Right:" From left are Rachel Seeker, Brittany Skipper, Lindsay Osborne and professional matchmaker April Beyer. (Zach Kozek/VH1)

MOBILE, Alabama -- “At this point, Brittany’s first choice in the guys is completely out of the window. Lindsay’s second choice, Niko, is already making out with some other girl. My guy, Brian, seems like he’s really into his date. So we’re doing great as matchmakers, but personally, we’re all getting burned here.”

Rachel Seeker’s observation near the end of Wednesday night’s episode of “Making Mr. Right” served as a timely reminder that deception is a two-way street. And while the VH1 reality show isn’t exactly “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” it does seem to bear out Shakespeare’s take that love has ways of turning the tables on people who play games with others’ hearts, and that this can be awfully funny to watch.

The idea was that the show would let three women – Seeker, Brittany Skipper and Lindsay Osborne – manipulate a crop of 14 eligible bachelors. Posing as professional matchmakers, they’d secretly mold their victims into the men they wanted them to be.

But the matchmaking ruse involves setting the guys up with matches. And even if those dates are agents working for the supposed matchmakers, the attraction can be real.

Mobile native Lamarr Ladd went almost unseen in Wednesday’s episode, the third of eight. He was at least safe, given that none of the men were eliminated; in the previous episode, the field had been cut from 14 to 11. And perhaps it was just as well that he was in the background, considering how many hearts were getting fractured.

Nobody took it harder on the chin than Skipper, who was developing a massive crush on Murphy, a guy identified as “Mr. Shy Hunk.”

A challenge requiring the men to come up with romantic songs or poems provided a chance for him to show if the feeling was mutual. The guys were paired with random dates at a club outing where they performed their works, and Murphy gave an especially impassioned reading of his poem. Skipper embraced him afterward – only to have him declare that he’d been inspired by his date for the evening, a woman he’d met only a little while before. Love at first sight had struck like a cross-eyed cobra.

“That’s like a stab in the heart, pretty much,” Skipper said.

As Seeker’s “we’re all getting burned” indicated, she and Osborne suffered similar setbacks of their own. The really funny part was that the guys were left raving about what a great job the “matchmakers” were doing.

To judge from Twitter, many cast members were watching the show and enjoying the comedy themselves, chiming in from time to time with the hashtag #MakingMrRight.

“These matchmakers don’t get it,” tweeted Chris, aka. “Mr. Immature,” (@ChrisMerc). "We thought it was girls we were compatible with on the dates! You can’t be mad at us!”

And Osborne (@LindsayMarissa) even shared text messages her father had fired at her during the episode. “OMG You guys are getting your heart’s crushed,” he observed. “Thank God Britney does not have a gun.”